January 31

Happy Birthday Carol Channing-91 Philip Glass-75 Harry Casey(KC)-61 John Lydon-56 Anthony LaPaglia-53 Minnie Driver-42 Justin Timberlake-31 Joel Courtney-16 , RIP Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) ; 1949 The first TV daytime soap opera, "These Are My Children," was broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.

January 30

Happy Birthday Gene Hackman-82 Vanessa Redgrave-75 Phil Collins-61 Charles S. Dutton-61 Jody Watley-53 Christian Bale-38 ; 1882 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, was born in Hyde Park, N.Y.

January 29

Happy Birthday Tom Selleck-67 Ann Jillian-62 Oprah Winfrey-58 Greg Louganis-52 Nicholas Turturro-50 Heather Graham-42 Sara Gilbert-37 ; 1845 Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" was first published, in the New York Evening Mirror.

January 27

Happy Birthday James Cromwell-72 Nick Mason-67 Mikhail Baryshnikov-64 Mimi Rogers-56 Keith Olbermann-53 Bridget Fonda-48 Alan Cumming-47 ; 1880 Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp (lightbulb) Patent Document

January 26

Happy Birthday Bob Uecker-77 Scott Glenn-73 Eddie Van Halen-57 Ellen DeGeneres-54 Wayne Gretzky-51 ; 1788 The first European settlers in Australia landed in present-day Sydney.

January 25

Happy Birthday Dinah Manoff-54 Alicia Keys-31 , RIP Etta James (1938–2012) ; 1915, the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, inaugurated U.S. transcontinental telephone service.

January 23

Happy Birthday Gil Gerard-69 Rutger Hauer-68 Anita Pointer-64 Richard Dean-62 Antonio Villaraigosa-59 Princess Caroline of Monoco-55 Anita Baker-54 Mariska Hargitay-48 ; 1973, President Richard Nixon announced an accord had been reached to end the Vietnam War.

January 22

Happy Birthday Piper Laurie-80 John Hurt-72 Steve Perry-63 Linda Blai-53 , RIP Bill Bixby(1934-1993) ; 1973, the Supreme Court handed down its Roe vs. Wade decision, which legalized abortion.

January 21

Happy Birthday Jack Nicklaus-72 Placido Domingo-71 Mac Davis-70 Billy Ocean-62 Robby Benson-56 Geena Davis-56 ; 1915 The first Kiwanis Club was founded, in Detroit.

January 20

Happy Birthday Arte Johnson-82 Buzz Aldrin-82 David Lynch-66 Bill Maher-56 Lorenzo Lamas-54 Melissa Rivers-44 Skeet Ulrich-42 ; RIP George Burns (1896-1996) ; Etta James dies at 73

January 19

Happy Birthday Jean Stapleton-89 Tippi Hedren-82 Dolly Parton-66 Desi Arnaz Jr-59 Katey Sagal-58 William Ragsdale-51 Jodie Sweetin-30 ; 1943 Rock singer Janis Joplin was born, RIP

Hitler reacts to SOPA.

January 17

Happy Birthday Betty White-90 James Earl Jones-81 Maury Povich-73 Muhammad Ali-70 Steve Harvey-55 Susanna Hoffs-53 Jim Carrey-50 Michelle Obama-48 Naveen Andrews-43 ; 1893, Hawaii's monarchy was overthrown as a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate.

January 16

Happy Birthday A.J. Foyt-77 John Carpenter-74 Debbie Allen-62 Sade(Helen Adu) -53 Dameon Clarke-40 Kate Moss-38 , RIP Aaliyah Dana Haughton (1979-2001)

January 15

Happy Birthday Lisa Lisa Velez-45 Charles ”Chad” Lowe-44 , RIP Lloyd Bridges (1913-1998) ; 1967, the first Super Bowl was played as the Green Bay Packers of the NFL defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the AFL ; 2001 Wikipedia, a web-based encyclopedia, made its debut.

January 14

Happy Birthday Jack Jones-74 Faye Dunaway-71 Steven Soderbergh-49 Emily Watson-44 Jason Bateman-43 ; 1952 NBC's "Today" show premiered.

January 13

Happy Birthday Frances Sternhagen-82 Rip Taylor-78 Richard Moll-69 Julia Louis-Dreyfus-51 Patrick Dempsey-46 Orlando Bloom-35 ; 1990, Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the nation’s first elected black governor as he took the oath of office in Richmond.

January 12

Happy Birthday Kirstie Alley-61 Howard Stern-58 Oliver Platt-52 Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com is 48 Andrew Lawrence-24 ; 1915, the United States House of Representatives rejected a proposal

January 11

Happy Birthday Felix Silla-75 Naomi Judd-66 Lee Ritenour-60 Vicki Peterson-54 Mary J. Blige-41 Amanda Peet-40 ; 1805 The Michigan Territory was created. Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States was a landmark report published on January 11, 1964 by the Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health, chaired by then-Surgeon General of the United States Luther Terry regarding the negative health effects of smoking. While not the first such declaration by an official of the United States of America, it is notable for being arguably the most famous, and certainly had lasting and widespread effects on the tobacco industry and on the worldwide perception of smoking.

January 10

Happy Birthday Frank Sinatra Jr-68 Rod Stewart-67 Donald Fagen-64 William Sanderson-64 George Foreman-63 Pat Benatar-59 ; 1870 John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil.

January 9

Happy Birthday Judith Krantz-84 Joan Baez-71 Crystal Gayle-61 J. K. Simmons-57 Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge-30 ; 1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.

January 8

Happy Birthday Charles Osgood-79 Bob Eubanks-74 Stephen Hawking-70 David Bowie-65 Michelle Forbes-47 Sean Paul-39 Sarah Polley-33 ; 1982 1982 AT&T settled the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit against it by agreeing to divest itself of the 22 Bell System companies.

January 7

Happy Birthday William Peter Blatty-84 Kenny Loggins-64 Erin Gray-62 David Caruso-56 Katie Couric-55 Nicolas Cage-48 Dustin Diamond-35

January 6

Happy Birthday Bonnie Franklin-68 Rowan Atkinson-57 Scott Bryce-54  Danny Pintauro-36 Eddie Redmayne-30  RIP Danny Thomas (1914,1991) ; 1912 New Mexico became the 47th state.

January 5

Happy Birthday Walter Mondale-84 Robert Duvall-81 Diane Keaton-66 Ted Lange-64 Pamela Sue Martin-59 Marilyn Manson-43 ; 1914, Henry Ford, introduced a minimum wage scale of $5 per day.

January 4

Happy Birthday Barbara Rush-85 Dyan Cannon-75 Bernard Sumner-58 Ann Magnuson-55 Matt Frewer-53 Michael Stipe-52 Dave Foley-49 Julia Ormond-47 August Diehl-36 Aaron Schwartz-31

January 3

Happy Birthday Robert Loggia-82 Dabney Coleman-80 Stephen Stills-66 Victoria Principal-62 Mel Gibson-56 ; 1959, President Eisenhower signed a proclamation admitting Alaska to the Union as the 49th state.

January 02

Happy Birthday Cuba Gooding Jr.-44 Patrick Huard-43 Dax Shepard-37 Kate Bosworth-29 ; 1974 President Richard Nixon signed legislation requiring states to limit highway speeds to 55 mph.

January 1

Happy Birthday Frank Langella-73 Dedee Pfeiffer-47 Verne Troyer-42 RIP J. Edgar Hoover(1895-1972) ; 1892 The Ellis Island Immigrant Station in New York opened ; 1983 APRANET officially uses TCPIP, creating Internet.